We are each other's magnitude and bond.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?

When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

First fight. Then fiddle.